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A photo of a surveillance camera monitoring Ai’s house in Beijing, posted on the artist’s blog in June 2009. Courtesy Ai Wei Wei.

NEWS: Ai Continues Activism Against China; Government Responds

The India-Bangladesh border where Shahidul Alam was detained on June, 2009. Courtesy Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World.

NEWS: Photojournalist Seized at the India-Bangladesh Border

NEWS: New Prize For Iranian Art Established

XING XIN, The Black Box, 2009, performance documentation from Venice Biennale, 2009. Courtesy Berengo Studio, Venice.

NEWS/ROUND UP: The Impossibilities of an Island

Illustration by Peter Arkle.

THE POINT: Politics of Antagonism

JOGEN CHOWDHURY, Day Dreaming, 1979, ink and pastel on paper, 152 x 182 cm. Courtesy Sotheby’s London.

AUCTION REPORT: Bounce Back

ART FAIR PREVIEW: Battening Down

ART FAIR PREVIEW: Battening Down

“No U-Turn” banners displayed outside the China Art Gallery, Beijing, for the “China/Avant-Garde” exhibition in 1989. Courtesy Xu Bing Studio, New York.

Shots Heard ’Round Beijing

Sticker by Iranian street artist A1one, on top of a poster of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the streets of Tehran, 2009. Courtesy the artist.

Vandal in the Tear Gas

MATERIAL FOR A FILM (PERFORMANCE), 2006, 1,000 blank books shot by the artist with a .22 caliber gun, shelving, 67 photographs, dimensions variable. Installation view at Guggenheim

Tribute to a Palestinian

JSG BOGGS’ life-size, satirical drawing of a USD 1,000 bill with a portrait of the late-19th century president Grover Cleveland. Issued by the fictive Bank of Bohemia, the bill, wh

Not For the Love of Money

SHILPA GUPTA, Untitled, 2008, photograph on flex, 300 x 120 in. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.

The Future Looks Feminine

Home of Our Youth—To Thee Will We Sing

Home of Our Youth—To Thee Will We Sing

Fereydoun Ave in Basel, Switzerland, for Art Basel in June 2009. Photo by ArtAsiaPacific.

Wrestling With History: Mystical and Masculine